What are the medicinal values ​​of Anemarrhena?

Although everyone knows that Chinese herbal medicines are much better than Western medicines because their side effects are relatively small, but everyone may not know what specific Chinese herbal medicines are like. For example, the Chinese herbal medicine Anemarrhena asphodeloides is rarely seen in normal times. It is mainly used to treat some infectious diseases. Because infectious diseases themselves have a certain transmission effect, it will be more difficult to treat. In this case, it can be used in combination with Anemarrhena asphodeloides for treatment.

Anemarrhena asphodeloides contains a variety of steroidal saponins and a large amount of mucus. Animal experiments have shown that it has obvious antipyretic, expectorant, diuretic and hypoglycemic effects. Its decoction has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on various pathogenic bacteria such as Shigella dysenteriae and Pneumococcus. It also has certain anti-cancer effects. It is now commonly used to treat fever caused by acute infectious diseases, such as epidemic encephalitis B, epidemic hemorrhagic fever, leptospirosis, lung infection, acute urinary tract infection, etc. It is also used to treat low-grade fever caused by pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, diabetes, prostate hypertrophy, etc.

Nature and flavor: bitter, sweet, and cold. It enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians.

Efficacy and application: Clears away heat and purges fire, nourishes yin and moistens dryness. Anemarrhena asphodeloides is good at clearing away the excess heat in the lungs and stomach and relieving restlessness and thirst. It is used for symptoms of excess heat in the lungs and stomach such as excessive evil heat in febrile diseases, high fever, thirst, and a strong and rapid pulse. It is often used together with gypsum, such as in Baihu Decoction. Zhimu can also clear away lung fire, nourish yin and moisten the lungs, so it is also used for lung heat cough, yellow and sticky phlegm, yin deficiency and dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm. To treat lung heat cough and yellow and sticky phlegm, it is often used with Trichosanthes, Fritillaria, Arisaema consanguineum, etc. To treat yin deficiency and dry cough, dry cough with little phlegm and excessive phlegm, it is used together with Fritillaria, such as Ermu Powder. Anemarrhena asphodeloides can nourish kidney yin, moisten kidney dryness and relieve bone steaming. It has the function of nourishing yin and reducing fire. Therefore, it is also used for bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, and irritability caused by yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire. It is usually used together with Phellodendron chinense and added to yin-nourishing medicines to enhance the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, such as Zhibai Dihuang Decoction.

Anemarrhena asphodeloides has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is also used for diabetes due to yin deficiency, dry intestines and constipation. It is often used in combination with Radix Trichosanthis, Radix Puerariae, etc. for diabetes caused by internal heat damaging body fluids, and thirst, such as Yuye Decoction; it is often used together with raw Polygonum multiflorum, Angelica sinensis, and Cannabis sativa seed for dry intestines and constipation.

The above article introduces in detail the medicinal value of Anemarrhena asphodeloides. Now that everyone has an understanding of it, if you feel a little hot in your body at ordinary times, you can take some Anemarrhena asphodeloides. This can help relieve the symptoms. Even cough and fever have a certain therapeutic effect. So there is no need to rush to use some antibiotics to treat the disease.